Then a third, an old woman, also rises.
"We must ask the abbot whether it isn't a sin to look at such a light." She goes off.

The smoke in the sky is ever increasing and the fire is subsiding, and the unknown city is already near its dark end.

The sea odour is growing ever sharper and stronger.

Night is coming from the shore.
Their heads turned, the women watch the departing old woman.

Then they turn again toward the light.
Mariet, as though defending some one, says softly: "There can't be anything bad in light.